Macintosh Support

Apple Store for the University of Toronto. Order online, custome order and get academic discounts! You must provide an employee/student number. Other Universities may shop here.

Hotnews has links to the latest software patches and upgrades for Apple software and links to third party software. You can also find quicktime links and event information as well as articles on uses of Apple products.

Apple Knowledge Base has articles on troubleshooting, upgrading and repairing all Macintosh models.

Customer Installable Parts tells how to install memory and other parts. It's a Mac, so it's a snap with online movies to show you how.

Mac OS X: File Sharing tells how to share files between Macs and Macs and Macs and PC's, locally or over a network. The next version (10.2) of Mac OS X will include full SMB/CIFS (Windows file sharing) support. Mac OS 9 users should use DAVE or DoubleTalk.

If you have a room full of Macs, Mac OS X Server is a product that might make your life easier. You can share user files securely from one location. Net-boot macs from one server, so you do not need to worry about maintaining and updating all the systems separately. Xserve is a new 1U rack product with up to dual 1GHz G4 and 480G of hot swappable storage. OS X Server included which can share to Mac, Windows and Unix/Linux users, with no per user charges. Recent benchmarks show it is faster the Dell servers and comparable to more expensive Sun servers.

Apple Security is a web page on security issues in Mac OS.

Diveintoosx.org is a great resource for users switching from Windows or Mac OS 9.

Latest Software Updates can be found here.

Apple announced Intel-based Macs

Apple announced that it will transition to x86-based macs, starting in 2006. A Developer Transition Kit, consisting of an Intel-based Mac development system (3.6 GHz Pentium 4) and copy of Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel, will allow developers to prepare versions of their applications that will run on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs. June 6, 2005

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Interesting Sites

MacSurfer is a summary of most Macintosh specific sites.

MacInTouch is updated daily with Macintosh news.

Macfixit has reports on problems and troubleshooting.

MacNN yet another source of Macintosh news.

Version Tracker has daily lists of updated software for Mac oS 9 and Mac OS X.

Updated Monday 2005-06-06 14:05

Local Support

Licenses for Macintosh Software can be bought by faculty and students from Information Commons. Often the prices are much less than even academic pricing for shrinkwrapped software from the UofT Computer Shop.

SciFinder Scholar for the Macintosh is available from the Library webpage.

How to use the University of Toronto LDAP in Mac OS X Mail application.

Dial-up networking scripts for ventus (Chemistry) or utordial (Mac OS 9 only).

Save the script you want to your Mac by using "Download link to disk";
Import into Remote Access control panel under the "Options…" window, "protocol tab" by clicking on the "Import Script" button;
"Connect to command line host Use connect script:" must be checked in the panel;
In the setup of Remote Access, select "Registered User";
Enter your username and password in the Remote Access dialog. (These are for alchemy or the ones supplied by utordial depending on which script you are using.);
The phone number for chemistry modems is 416-978-7448 at 33 kbps. For Utordial: 416-978-0448;
Under the TCP/IP control panel, select Connect via PPP. "Configure Using PPP Server";
For Chemistry: enter 142.150.224.224 under "Name server addr." in the TCP/IP control panel;
For Utordial: enter 128.100.100.128 under "Name server addr." in the TCP/IP control panel;
To save different configurations, choose File>Configurations...

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News

Apple announced Intel-based Macs

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